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A hubcap of a new Toyota Corolla is seen on the lot at York Auto Group Toyota in York, Pa. , Friday, May, 8, 2009. Toyota Motor Corp. , battered by plunging global sales, reported its worst annual loss since its 1937 founding _ and forecast even more red ink in the year ahead.

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FREMONT, CA - AUGUST 20: A protestor wears a United Auto Workers shirt as she marches with union workers from New United Motors Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) as thet protest plans to shut down the auto assembly plant August 20, 2009 in Fremont, California.

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FREMONT, CA - AUGUST 20: A young girl holds a homemade sign as she marches with union workers from New United Motors Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) as thet protest plans to shut down the auto assembly plant August 20, 2009 in Fremont, California.

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FREMONT, CA - AUGUST 20: Union workers from New United Motors Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) carry signs as thet protest plans to shut down the auto assembly plant August 20, 2009 in Fremont, California.

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FREMONT, CA - AUGUST 20: Union workers from New United Motors Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) carry signs as thet protest plans to shut down the auto assembly plant August 20, 2009 in Fremont, California.

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FREMONT, CA - AUGUST 20: Union workers from New United Motors Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) carry signs as thet protest plans to shut down the auto assembly plant August 20, 2009 in Fremont, California.

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FREMONT, CA - AUGUST 20: Union workers from New United Motors Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) carry signs as thet protest plans to shut down the auto assembly plant August 20, 2009 in Fremont, California.

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FREMONT, CA - AUGUST 20: Union workers from New United Motors Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) carry signs as thet protest plans to shut down the auto assembly plant August 20, 2009 in Fremont, California.

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FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2009 file photo, 2009 Toyota Corolla sedans sit at a Toyota dealership on Sunday in Centennial, Colo. Japanese automakers Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. also posted gains year-over-year gains in August.

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Mechanic Nick Vrakas, right, attracts an onlooker as he races the engine of a 1995 Toyota 4-Runner filled with sodium silicate to render it inoperable outside Bay Ridge Toyota in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009.

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Mechanic Nick Vrakas pours a solution of sodium silicate into the engine of a 1995 Toyota 4-Runner that was traded in for a 2010 Toyota Corolla outside Bay Ridge Toyota in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009. The vehicle was traded as part of the government's Cash for Clunkers program.

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Sales consultant Mostafa Ellaida, left, talks to Nicholas Sasso, center, and Sasso's good friend John Raffa in the showroom of Bay Ridge Toyota in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009.

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Sales consultant Mostafa Ellaida, second from right, helps customer Nicholas Sasso, far left, his friend John Raffa, and Sasso's son Chris, 12, as they look under the hood of a Toyota Corolla on display outside Bay Ridge Toyota in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009.

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FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2009 file photo, sales consultant Mostafa Ellaida, right, shows a Toyota Corolla to Nicholas Sasso at Bay Ridge Toyota in New York. Signs of life in the auto market are spurring automakers to raise production at the nation's idled car factories.

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An occupant in a single car rollover accident, left, covers his face as public safety officials tend to one of three individuals sustaining injuries, later to be transported to Ivinson Memorial Hospital Thursday, June 18, 2009 west of Laramie, Wyo.

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In this image made from television, Sayed Najibullah, a 22-year-old shopkeeper, speaks to The Associated Press near the site of an explosion in Kapisa province, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 26, 2009.